About this publication
Singapore News is a small English-language publication about research and engineering. It explains what a study found, how a structure works, and where the numbers came from.
What it covers
The subjects are marine and polar science, engineering and infrastructure, technology, and the economics attached to them. The test for a piece is whether it can answer a specific question a reader arrived with, in enough depth that they do not need to go somewhere else afterwards.
A piece is researched over days rather than minutes, and it runs when the sourcing is finished. Articles are dated, and the date is the date they were published.
How articles are put together
Every article lists its sources at the foot of the page, and those sources are the ones actually used, not a reading list assembled afterwards. Where a claim rests on a specific dataset, the dataset is named, along with its version and its baseline period, because a temperature anomaly or a reservoir volume means nothing without them.
Figures are built from published data and the file is cited. Numbers that could not be traced to a source are left out rather than rounded into place. Where two reputable sources disagree, the disagreement is described instead of resolved by picking one.
Articles carry no individual byline. Work here is published under the masthead, which is an accurate description of how it is produced.
About the images
Photographs on this site are generated illustrations, not documentary photographs of the specific places or events described in the text. Captions say what an image depicts and never claim it records a particular moment. Diagrams and charts are a different matter: those are drawn directly from the cited data, and the source is named in the caption.
Corrections
Substantive corrections are made in the article itself rather than in a note beneath it, and the page carries an updated date once changed, so a revision is visible rather than silent. Where a correction changes what a piece concludes, the change is described in the text at the point it applies, not summarised at the foot.
Where the figures come from
Every number on the site traces to one of these.
- Meteorological observations and forecasts Air temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall, the two-hour outlook for 47 forecast areas and the four-day forecast. Read from the national open-data service each time a page with a readout loads. Nothing is cached between visits beyond the length of a session.
- Vehicle quota premiums 197 bidding exercises since 2010-01, from the Land Transport Authority's published results. Aggregated at build time, because the results are monthly.
- Resale housing transactions 238,194 individual sales from the Housing & Development Board record, aggregated into monthly, town and flat-type medians. Medians, not averages, and the transaction count is shown beside every figure.
- Planning-area geometry The island outline on the map is the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan boundary data, projected and simplified. It is not drawn by hand.
- Temperature record NASA GISTEMP v4 annual means, against the 1951–1980 baseline. Charted from the published series.
Where a figure has no open source — rail line status, exchange rates — the panel is left empty and says what it needs. It is not filled with an estimate.